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Cole Schotz’s Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring practice is a distinguished and nationally renowned full-service group that is regularly cited in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and lauded for a track record that boasts unparalleled effectiveness, success and value.
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Our Blockchain Technology and Digital Currency Group has closely monitored the evolving legal and regulatory landscape surrounding the advent of blockchain technology. We are experienced and ready to assist companies and applications utilizing public blockchains and private ledgers in every stage of their businesses, including: + Read more

Cole Schotz’s multi-faceted practice is uniquely well-suited for investors and entrepreneurs alike with respect to the emerging cannabis industry and the opportunities and challenges it presents. + Read more

Cole Schotz provides comprehensive construction related services, for every phase of construction projects, both public and private, throughout the country. Our services include the preparation and negotiation of complex construction contracts, advising on requisite insurance coverage, surety and bonding needs, labor laws and union participation, and company formation and ownership agreements, and providing counseling on contract administration, lien claims, risk management, and environmental and OSHA compliance.
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Cole Schotz provides practical advice regarding all business matters, from simple governance issues to complex corporate transactions. We assist companies in achieving their short- and long-term business objectives, whether they are public corporations, closely held and family owned businesses, or sole proprietorships. + Read more

We value our close working relationship with clients and the trust they place in us to address and resolve complicated and often sensitive employment issues. Our attorneys provide preventive counseling and guidance to both large and small employers on a wide range of compliance issues and evolving statutory and common law requirements. This includes those related to wrongful discharge, discrimination, retaliation, sexual and other forms of harassment, family and medical leaves of absence, disability, substance abuse, wage and hour, and restrictive covenant trade secret and other related issues.
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Our Environmental Law department is vibrant, growing and ideally situated to assist those who buy, sell or conduct business on commercial or industrial property where environmental risks can create significant challenges to business ventures.
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The Cole Schotz Healthcare Group, led by Paul W. Kim, Esq., a former employee of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, represents a variety of individuals and corporations in the healthcare industry including:
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If you create it, we can help you protect it, enforce it, and monetize it. For years, the Intellectual Property team at Cole Schotz has been partnering with clients to provide superior quality service at unmatched value. Our recipe includes superior quality work product, aggressive advocacy, business-focused counseling, creativity, responsiveness, and integrity. + Read more

Utilizing their breadth of experience in both thriving and distressed economic environments, the members of our Real Estate Special Opportunities Group have the practical experience and depth to offer clients flexible and creative solutions to a multitude of complex real estate transactions.
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In today’s ultra-competitive food and beverage marketplace, where guests are sophisticated and business challenges come from both expected and unexpected places, it is imperative that foodie entrepreneurs, restaurant groups, celebrity chefs, craft brewers, hotel owners and investors engage a strong team of advisors to limit bumps along the road to success.
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The players in the world of sports go far beyond those performing on game day. Whether you are an athlete, sports-related organization or supplier to the industry, our experienced team is ready to assist. + Read more

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The Cole Schotz Tax, Trusts & Estates attorneys counsel individuals and businesses in a range of tax and estate planning strategies. Our clients include owners of family businesses where succession planning and asset protection are linked, and individuals of substantial means who wish to take advantage of sophisticated tax planning techniques to retain and build their wealth for future generations.
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Special Counsel

Jenny R. Flom is special counsel in the firm’s Litigation Department. Jenny’s practice focuses on probate litigation, including guardianship actions, special needs trust litigation, and estate and trust litigation. Jenny represents clients in obtaining guardianship over their incapacitated loved ones. She also represents clients in petitioning state courts to reform and establish special needs trusts. Jenny also regularly works with clients and their matrimonial counsel in connection with divorce proceedings regarding issues related to special needs planning and guardianship.

Some of Jenny’s representative matters include:

Successfully obtaining multiple judgments reforming and establishing special needs trusts, enabling clients and their loved ones to qualify for government benefits.

Obtaining numerous judgments of guardianship for parents over their adult children with special needs, and for adult children over their parents with dementia, in uncontested and contested guardianship actions.

After and during acrimonious divorce proceedings, successfully litigating and obtaining judgments of guardianship for parents over their developmentally disabled adult children when contested by the child’s other parent.

After litigating in two jurisdictions (New Jersey and Florida), successfully obtaining a judgment of guardianship for a daughter over her elderly father with progressive dementia who was unlawfully taken to Florida without notice to his children.

Favorably settling a guardianship action between two parties in connection with an acrimonious divorce proceeding.

Successfully obtaining temporary guardianship pending a final hearing for parents of an emotionally disturbed adult child in order to provide the adult child with necessary medical treatment.

Obtaining a judgment in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in a case of first impression authorizing the transfer of settlement proceeds in the amount of over $1 million to a New Jersey Special Needs Trust.

Resolving and litigating various estate matters, including disputes involving will contests, trust reformations, undue influence, and breaches of fiduciary duty.

Recognized for the quality of her legal work and professionalism, Jenny has been recognized by New Jersey Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” for 2014-2016. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. See Award Methodology.

In addition to her guardianship and estate litigation practice, Jenny also successfully represents retailers, major financial institutions, technology companies, manufacturers, commercial landlords, small business owners, and individuals in complex commercial litigation matters such as breach of contract actions, commercial landlord-tenant actions, business disputes, insurance coverage litigation, securities litigation, and employment related-matters before the state and federal district courts. Jenny has also advised New Jersey quasi-legislative bodies regarding state and federal regulatory and statutory compliance and defended claims against State entities.

An associate of the firm since 2007, Jenny represented the following clients, among others:

VW Credit, Inc.

New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority

The Merit Group, Inc.

Vitaquest International, LLC

RAR2 – The Green at Park Place East – NJ, Inc.

Sussex Bank

ITechnology Group, LLC

Westminster Capital, LLC

Bonanno Real Estate Group, L.P.

Reebok International, Ltd.

The Azarian Group, LLC.

Dunkin Donuts Franchise Group

The Valley Hospital

Jenny is active in numerous industry and professional organizations including as a committee member on the Fair Lawn ADA Advisory Committee. Jenny is also a member of the Justice Morris Pashman Inn of Court where she graduated with the distinction of Barrister, a member of the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association and a member of the Bergen County Bar Association. Jenny also actively participates as a Judge in the Vincent J. Apruzzese Mock Trial Competition and is an alumni mentor for students at New England Law - Boston. Jenny also volunteers with Dorot USA to assist low income elderly adults and families with disaster and emergency relief.

Jenny earned her J.D. from New England Law - Boston. While in law school, Jenny was a Note and Comment Editor of the New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement and received the CALI Excellence Award in Clinical Evidence.

Prior to joining Cole Schotz, Jenny served as law clerk to the Honorable Sybil R. Moses, Assignment Judge for the Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County. During her time as a law clerk, Jenny also became a certified mediator and mediated many cases for the Special Civil Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County.

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